Matsuo Bashs Poetic Spaces Exploring Haikai Intersections [Hardcover]

Haikai is an art that parodies and often subverts its linguistic, generic, and personal predecessors, and its intersections include imaginative links to the rest of Japanese literature and culture. This collection of essays explores certain neglected aspects of this haikaimaster's literary and philosophical contributions.Introduction; E.Kerkham PART I: The Artist As Thinker Bash?: At the Center of Creation; H.Nobuo Z?ka: The Creative in Bash?'s View of Nature and Art; D.L.Barnhill Reinventing the Landscape: The Zhuangzi and the Geographical Imagination of Bash?; P.Qiu Skeletons on the Path: Bash? Looks Forward; W.LaFleur PART II: The Artist As Poet Double Voices and Bash?'s Haikai; H.Shirane Loosening the Links: Considering Intention in Linked Verseand its Consequences; I. Leopold Hanami Exploring Bash?'s World of Poetic Expression: Soundscape Verses; H.Minoru And Us Too Enclosed in Mori Atsushi's Ware mo mata, Oku no hosomichi ; Eleanor Kerkham PART III: The Poet As Painter Bash? and the Haiga; J.O'Mara Intersections of Text and Image in Haiga; S.Addiss Buson's Bash?: The Embrace of Influence; E.F.Yasuhara Appendix

The level of scholarship is high and in some respects the book is groundbreaking. - Choice This book does much to deepen our understanding of the work, and of the larger significance, of Japan s most revered haiku poet. There is no other work available in English which touches on so many aspects of his genius; now, with the help of these various sophisticated essays, the reader can come closer to Bash? as a thinker, a poet, and a painter. At this point in the development of haiku and Bash? studies, one could not ask for more. - Thomas Rimer, Professor of Japanese Literature, emeritus, University of Pittsburgh This is a collection of wide-ranging and original scholarship. Taken together, the essays are groundbreaking in their attention to the full range of Basho's literary and artistic activities as well as to Basho's connections to the Daoist, l“Y